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The Vulnerable Humanitarian: Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector

The Vulnerable Humanitarian: Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector

Houldey, Gemma

Paperback

Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies

Health GeneralGeneral Political ScienceSelf-Help

ISBN10: 0367469790
ISBN13: 9780367469795
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 28 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue to trouble organisations and staff.

Engaging and insightful, this book illustrates the problematic and unrealistic expectations of aid workers through the archetype of the perfect humanitarian, and considers why burnout is so endemic, yet so rarely acknowledged, within aid organisations. The book provides practical means through which staff and managers can reflect upon and discuss damaging organisational cultures and behaviours, and develop a more inclusive and caring work environment. Drawing on original academic research and interviews with national and international aid workers and development experts, the book proposes a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial agenda in challenging oppressive systems and structures within the sector. With extensive professional experience as an aid worker herself, Gemma Houldey also shares her own struggles with mental health and what she has learned from feminist practices for self- and collective care.

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